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Section Presentations

In the 2008 offering of Math 154, Professor Paul Bamberg had small weekly sections where students prepared problems from the textbook in advance, which they presented for each other.

Indexing Lectures

In this activity, lectures were indexed by topic and posted online so that students could re-watch segments on specific topics.

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Ways of Seeing Art

Students write a response paper on their experience viewing art online versus in the context of a museum.

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Cognitive Mapping of Boston

Students collect cognitive maps of safe and dangerous parts of Boston via street interviews and write research papers on their original findings.

Interactive Group Math

Every aspect of Math 121 is highly interactive: Students spend most of class time working in groups on problems and they then present their work and discuss as a class. Each student is responsible for some part of the in-class problems.

module.pdf

Education in the Economy

In this seminar, students work to determine causal relationships and engage with readings about the economic environment of education.

weekly questions.docx

Botany of Harvard Square

This project has students work in pairs explore the botany of Harvard Square. Students find a plant-related item to research and prepare a an abstract, a presentation, and a written report.

project guidelines.doc

Political Theory Paper Exchange

Students are assigned a peer's paper to review. After being assigned a peer, students write 2 pages of comments using detailed guidelines that walk them through what to look for.

Other Minds

"Other Minds" is a rolling twitter feed that students participate in during lecture.

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Thought Experiment of the Day

If killing one person for his organs saves two dying patients in need of organ transplants, it is worth doing? Thought experiments like this can be used during lecture to teach political theory.

handout.docx

teds.pdf

Refreshers

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section.

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Blitz Thesis

Students respond to a quote by formulating for and against the position on the spot.

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Hemingway Parody

Let your students be Hemingway for a day. In this parody exercise, students learn Hemingway's style by adopting it.

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Unusual Asian Disease Outbreak

There has been an outbreak of an unusual Asian disease. Which policy is best based on the scientific estimations of how many people will be saved? This activity uses this example with poll everywhere (polleverywhere.com) technology to demonstrate framing and prospect theory.

slides.pdf

question1.pdf

question2.pdf

Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts.

handout.pdf

handout answers.pdf

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Individual

Section Presentations

In the 2008 offering of Math 154, Professor Paul Bamberg had small weekly sections where students prepared problems from the textbook in advance, which they presented for each other.

Indexing Lectures

In this activity, lectures were indexed by topic and posted online so that students could re-watch segments on specific topics.

Ways of Seeing Art

Students write a response paper on their experience viewing art online versus in the context of a museum.

Cognitive Mapping of Boston

Students collect cognitive maps of safe and dangerous parts of Boston via street interviews and write research papers on their original findings.

Interactive Group Math

Every aspect of Math 121 is highly interactive: Students spend most of class time working in groups on problems and they then present their work and discuss as a class. Each student is responsible for some part of the in-class problems.

Education in the Economy

In this seminar, students work to determine causal relationships and engage with readings about the economic environment of education.

Botany of Harvard Square

This project has students work in pairs explore the botany of Harvard Square. Students find a plant-related item to research and prepare a an abstract, a presentation, and a written report.

Political Theory Paper Exchange

Students are assigned a peer's paper to review. After being assigned a peer, students write 2 pages of comments using detailed guidelines that walk them through what to look for.

Other Minds

"Other Minds" is a rolling twitter feed that students participate in during lecture.

Thought Experiment of the Day

If killing one person for his organs saves two dying patients in need of organ transplants, it is worth doing? Thought experiments like this can be used during lecture to teach political theory.

Refreshers

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section.

Blitz Thesis

Students respond to a quote by formulating for and against the position on the spot.

Hemingway Parody

Let your students be Hemingway for a day. In this parody exercise, students learn Hemingway's style by adopting it.

Unusual Asian Disease Outbreak

There has been an outbreak of an unusual Asian disease. Which policy is best based on the scientific estimations of how many people will be saved? This activity uses this example with poll everywhere (polleverywhere.com) technology to demonstrate framing and prospect theory.

Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts.

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